Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels was reviewed at Street Roots News. From the review: Richard Heinberg’s “Afterburn” — despite being a collection of talks and essays — lays out in lucid, reasonable and...
I was in Greece from June 23 through July 5, and, while I had no meetings with government officials that might give me insider information on how events there are likely to unfold, nevertheless the experience was both enlightening...
As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we...
This could be big. Religious and ethical impulses are powerful shapers of human behavior. That’s why, here in the US, corporate leaders long ago found ways to use religion to promote the notions that extreme economic inequality is perfectly...
Post Carbon Fellow Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was featured in this article in the North Bay Bohemian. From the article: “I’m a cheerleader for local and all in favor of local solutions to economic problems,” he says. “We need...
Richard Heinberg joins Diane Horn, host of the Sustainability Segment, Mind Over Matters to talk about the themes of his new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Download Originally broadcast on KEXP Seattle. Use Discount Code PCI2015...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg comments on the next 6 months for oil producers.
The world needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible. That’s the only sane response to climate change, and to the economic dilemma of declining oil, coal, and gas resource quality and increasing extraction costs....
Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels By Richard Heinberg 205 pp. New Society Publishers – Apr. 2015. $18.95. Review by Frank Kaminski, originally published at Mud City Press Richard Heinberg’s studies into energy resources began with one of the grand,...
On May 18 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report titled “How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?” The question is a bit misleading: most readers, when they see the word subsidy, probably tend to think of tax breaks...